Forecasting the physical and chemical and thermophysical properties of nickel-containing ferroalloys

The aim of the work is to study the possibility of using integral and partial model parameters of interatomic interaction for the systematic study of the most important consumer properties of nickel ferroalloys used for alloying steel and alloys. In the work, a new approach developed at the Iron and Steel Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was used to solve the problems of predicting the properties of alloys, connecting the composition, structure and properties of melts. Using experimental data on the heat of melting, heat capacity, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity of ferronickel, ferroboron, ferromolybdenum, ferro-tungsten, ferrozirconium and other ferroalloys, equations were obtained which made it possible to estimate these properties in advance. Analysis of the experimental data showed that the density of liquid iron-nickel-chromium alloys and their melting points are closely related to the interatomic interaction parameters. Using the parameters of interatomic interaction and experimental data, equations were obtained to describe the dependence of the crystallization temperature, specific density, specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity of nickel-chromium-containing ferroalloys on the parameters of interatomic interaction. Using the above equations, model melting points and ferronickel densities (FN-5M) were estimated using model prediction. The developed semi-empirical models can be used to predict the properties of standard grades of ferroalloys both within a single grade and the entire range of ferroalloys. This allows you to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of ferroalloys at the main stages of steelmaking.